1914When
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, decides to found a university
east of the Mississippi River, the city of Atlanta offers the
church $500,000 and the use of Wesley Memorial Church and Wesley
Memorial Hospital. During deliberations, Coca-Cola magnate Asa
G. Candler offers the church a million dollars to establish
the school. During the meeting at which Candlers letter
is read, Atlanta is chosen as the location and Bishop Warren
A. Candler is named chancellor.

1914The
School of Theology opens at Wesley Memorial Church. The
next year, it is named in honor of Bishop Warren A. Candler.

1915On
January 25, Judge C. S. Reid of the Superior Court of DeKalb County
grants a charter to Emory University.

1915The
Druid Hills Company, probably guided by its president, Asa
G. Candler, deeds seventy-five rolling, wooded acres known
as the Guess Place to Emory University for its campus. Candler
later is elected the first president of the Universitys
Board of Trustees.

1915The
Atlanta Medical College becomes the Emory University School
of Medicine.

1915Emory
Academy, a preparatory school, is established at Oxford after
plans are made to move Emory College to Atlanta.

1916In
September, the Lamar College of Law, named for alumnus
L. Q. C. Lamar 1845C, is established. The law school (above)
and the Candler School of Theology move into the first
two academic buildings completed on the Druid Hills campus.

1917When
the United States enters World War I, the University organizes
a medical unit composed mainly of medical school faculty
and alumni, who serve at Blois, France, from July 1918 to January
1919. The medical unit is reinstated in 1940, after war breaks
out in Europe, and serves in North Africa.

1917Eléonore
Raoul enrolls in the law school, becoming the first woman
admitted to the University.

1918Bishop
Warren A. Candler and medical school faculty member James
L. Campbell successfully campaign to exempt college endowments
from taxation by the state.

1918The
modern Glee Club is established, and the alma mater
by J. Marvin Rast is first performed.

1919Dooleys
Diary appears in the yearbook for the first time.

1919The
Emory Wheel is first published.

1919Emory
College joins the schools of law and theology and the pre-clinical
program of the medical school on the Atlanta campus. The School
of Business Administration and the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences are founded.